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S'pore e-health records roadmap 'pragmatic'
News Singapore and other Asian countries have ingredients for successful implementation of e-healthcare services, say executives from GE Healthcare.
Tags: Data Management, Local Government, Regulations, GE Healthcare, General Electric Co., E-health, Asia-Pacific, Spokesperson, Singapore, electronic health record
GE boosts bets on battery technology
News Part of its US$17 billion Ecomagination initiative, GE is increasing research in batteries for transportation and energy storage on the electricity grid.
Tags: Hardware, Components, Green IT, Battery, Clean Technology, General Electric Co., Carbon Footprint, Storage, lithium-ion, Chrysler LLC
Tech innovations for tough times
News Companies like GE are using alternative techniques, such as a method pioneered back in Stalin's Soviet Union called "theory of solving inventor's problems", to make R&D more efficient.
Tags: Innovation, Business development/management, R&D, General Electric Co., Training, Tool, Innovation, Soviet Union, TRIZ, GEN3 Partners
Six Sigma: Changing organizations for the better
Techguide The Six Sigma philosophy, implemented by companies such as GE and American Express, starts with a very simple and obvious idea: defects cost money. Find out more in this high-level overview.
Tags: Quality, Motorola Inc., Organization, TV, General Electric Co., Manufacturing, Japan, BPR, process improvement
GE holographic discs to sound Blu-ray death knell?
Techguide Is the death of Blu-ray, but a few years away? If GE can bring its holographic technology to the masses, then it very well may be.
Tags: Storage, Blu-ray, General Electric Co., IT Manager, Storage, DVD, Hologram, storage system, disc, optics
Google crashes the smart-grid party
News Company introduces PowerMeter software for tracking home energy use, part of smart-grid plan to make energy data available on the Web in real time in standard formats.
Tags: Green IT, Web sites, Google Inc., Utility, General Electric Co., Renewable Energy, Hardware, software, energy efficiency, industry
Olympics security is no game
News U.S. companies are supplying high-tech surveillance gear to the Beijing Olympics. The concern is how it might be used after the Games.
Tags: Security, General Electric Co., Security Equipment, Honeywell International Inc., security technology, China, Beijing, U.S., Olympic Games, George W. Bush
Intel seeds five energy startups with US$10M
News Chip giant's venture arm boosts its presence in smart-grid technologies and low-power computing through investments.
Tags: Green IT, Investments, Intel Corp., Security, C, Intel Xeon, General Electric Co., Investment, energy efficiency, high-performance computing
HP's new tack on research grants
News Hewlett-Packard awards 41 university professors as much as US$100,000 apiece and plans to be more involved in the research projects.
Tags: R&D, Business Strategies & Functions, Data centers, Hewlett-Packard Co., General Electric Co., Amgen Inc., professor, researcher, HP Labs, Silicon Valley
Cisco, Silver Spring Networks land smart-grid deals
News Duke Energy picks Cisco to supply networking gear and home energy management systems, while Chicago-based utility ComEd picks Silverspring Networks and GE.
Tags: grid computing, Utility, Cisco Systems Inc., General Electric Co., networking hardware, Chicago, energy efficiency, network, senior vice president, North Carolina
Tim Draper: Now's the 'best time' to start a business
News Venture capitalist Timothy Draper says that despite the recession, now is a great time to start a new business.
Tags: Venture capital, Entrepreneurship, Adobe Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., General Electric Co., Investor, Stock, Coca-Cola Co., Seattle, Venture capital
A Dickensian view of clean-tech financing
News There's plenty of enthusiasm for funding the latest green-tech or alternative-fuel company. The problem is the economy stinks, and doesn't look like it will improve anytime soon.
Tags: Green IT, Clean Technology, General Electric Co., IPO, Investor, Renewable Energy, tax credit, Jefferies & Co., financing, Government Loan
Smart-grid group gains Google
News The tech giant joins industry group that promotes products for home energy-monitoring and making the power grid more efficient during peak times with software.
Tags: Green IT, Google Inc., General Electric Co., Hardware, software, energy efficiency, monitoring, News.com, partnership, blog
Google, GE team up on clean energy
News Giants in their respective fields, the two companies plan to lobby for government energy policies to modernize the electrical grid and promote renewable energies.
Tags: Green IT, Google Inc., General Electric Co., Geothermal Energy, Renewable Energy, Grid, software, Eric Schmidt, revenue, U.S.
Is US missing the boat on green tech?
News GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt and famed venture capitalist John Doerr warn policy makers that the United States is lagging China in developing green-technology industries.
Tags: Green IT, Investments, Government, Energy, Carbon Emission, General Electric Co., greenhouse gas, Renewable Energy, electricity grid, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
